Peace and Justice: A Limited Reconciliation

This paper aims to relax the tension between the political requirements of making peace and the moral demands of doing justice, in light of the ‘peace processes’ in South Africa and Northern Ireland. It begins by arguing that criminal justice should be reconceived as consisting primarily in the vind...

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Main Author: Biggar, Nigel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2002
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2002, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-179
Further subjects:B South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
B Retributive Punishment
B Bible
B vindication of victims
B Northern Ireland's ‘Peace Process’
B Criminal Justice
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